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Laser Levels Playing Field

(Die-Cutting)

May 31, 2011, ... future speed increases. The bulk of the folding carton market consists of paper products with a thickness of 9 mils or more, but plastic sheets and plastic-coated papers also are used, and these also must ...

Flexible Packaging: Eco Innovation

(Flexpack)

February 28, 2011, ...  Curwood Inc., Oshkosh, WI, a Bemis company, produces Liquiflex Advance films for bulk liquids, which merit a gold award from the judges. A replacement for metal foodservice cans and traditional bulk ...

Looking South

(Label/Tape)

October 31, 2010, ... packaging material serving as the adhesive carrier. P-S Graphic Arts | For p-s graphic arts applications, paper-based liners account for the bulk usage. The key requirements are dimensional stability, ...

Packaging Paper: Better Days Ahead?

(Flexpack)

September 30, 2010, ... papers) and increased their purchasing of bulk packages, private label brands, and discounted products. In addition to similar behavior changes that are likely to be more severe this time around compared ...

You Get what You Pay For, or Caveat Emptor.

(Tom’s Poly Ploys)

July 15, 2010, ... the bulk residence time in the extruder is much longer, which means the EVOH is exposed to more thermal history, which means that it degrades into bubbles, gels and carbon at a greater rate which is further ...

A future for photovoltaics

(Metallizing)

April 30, 2010, ... than for food packaging was required. This barrier performance target has proven difficult to achieve. The reasons why the deposited metal, glass-like, or ceramic coatings fail to meet the bulk barrier ...

Analyze Powder Flow

(New Products)

February 28, 2010, ... of established products. Test options include flow function, time consolidation, wall friction, and bulk density. Brookfield Engineering | 800-628-8139 | www.brookfieldengineering.com Circle 405 or ...

Eco Fiction

(Substrates)

August 31, 2009, ... are working actively on upfront design for improved product-to-package ratios and increased bulk packaging, even removing some intermediate packaging elements. Source Reduction | This is potentially more ...

Clean Cut

(Slit Main)

May 31, 2009, ... for one of two things: automation for long-run jobs, or quick setup for short runs, which is the bulk of what people are doing nowadays. And one of the main things when you get into short-run type of work ...

Door to Door QC

(Coating/Laminating)

September 30, 2008, ... sell standard products in bulk to their customers, which works well for the vast majority of end-users. Yet, there always will be a demand among converters of all sizes for smaller volume specialty materials, ...

Film Converting: Luminit Films Shape Light

(Substrates)

September 30, 2008, ... is not only the best at what they do, they're the only ones who do what they do. “In terms of surface holographic diffusers, we're the only one,” says Williams. “The rest of the stuff out there, they're bulk ...

Weight Reduction

(Archive)

August 31, 2008, ... sack three years ago that has successfully reduced the weight of its finished bags by as much as 50% over the multiwall bags that traditionally have been used to package bulk items like pet foods. It subsequently ...

What's New Product

(New Products)

May 31, 2008, ... converting high-bulk board substrates or multiple webs of coated papers. Maxson Automatic Machinery Co. | 401-596-0162 | www.maxsonautomatic.com PFFC-ASAP 413 UV Dryers Aid Print Quality UVAPRINT ...

Narrow Web & Label Reporter

(Label/Tape)

April 30, 2008, ... too expensive or bulky. The co-developed technologies will be based on the combination of PowerID's thin and flexible, environment-friendly battery and STMicroelectronics' integrated-circuit family designed ...

Roll Winding Dynamics

(Web Handling)

January 31, 2008, ... sometimes due a vibrational bounce induced by bulky material. More often though, out-of-round or deformed rolls occur during handling and storage, hence employees need to exercise care when moving material ...

Up to the Task

(Magazine)

June 30, 2007, ... as infant diapers, or around the waist, as adult incontinence products, making them more comfortable and less bulky. Said to offer discretion by eliminating “rustle.” Pliant Corp.—PFFC-ASAP 317. pliantcorp.com ...

Cut to the Quick

(Magazine)

June 30, 2007, ... Elliott is targeting the growing markets of Asia and Australia and says the new installation will play an important part in the production of Bulksorb, a new range of airlaid, high-capacity absorbent mats ...

Paper Roll Handling: What's Right For You

(Archive)

May 30, 2007, ... automation become clear even at this stage of the process. The sheer bulk of paper rolls makes them potentially dangerous and tremendously unwieldy, and automation can eliminate mishaps. Fully automating ...

First Glance

(Magazine)

March 31, 2007, ... mind when creating an award-winning package for Redken for Men Bulk Up Thickening Spray. Honored with an AmeriStar Award in the 2006 IoPP competition, the package features a trapezoid shape with straight ...

The Changing World of Wine

(Magazine)

September 30, 2006, ... hectoliters — the highest level of production since 1992. In Europe as well as worldwide, supply actually has outstripped demand. And in the “Old World” countries of Europe, where the bulk of the volume ...